Shocking complication

[Ensemble]

I simply do not know what will provoke the outcry and backlash that convinces/shames the American medical establishment to stop engaging in the "service" of medically pointless genital surgeries on newborns.

I doubt it will be this [warning:graphic].

[MCatLvrMom2A&X]

: :Puke:

Warning folks graphic picture.

[Papai]

*screams*

God. How is male circumcision NOT considered genital mutilation by the world?

[theretohere]

I can't look- what is it?

[Raelynn]

Originally Posted by theretohere

I can't look- what is it?

a mutilated penis

[Kleine Hexe]

I can't look either

[perspective]

Originally Posted by theretohere

I can't look- what is it?

A skinned foreskin. What I dont understand, is circumcision is not even viewed in the same way other surgeries are. If they were, even people who supported circumcision would speak out about horrors like this, and what we all can do to correct these complications from happening. But they dont. It just makes everything so much more horrible.

[MCatLvrMom2A&X]

A degloving injury due to the mogen clamp. It is writen by a Dr. asking other Dr's if they have ever ran across that kind of thing before. They also mention Gamco and bell (plasti I assume) that can cause this.

I write because ....unknowingly had a cuff of the foreskin folded back under itself over the bell. The result was a "ring of the treebark" with the under lying mucosal surface not cut through.

Yeah the foreskin is now a ring of treebark :

Oh and this little gem toward the end

In any event, it’s no “biggie”, easy to correct, no significant or permanent sequelae.

If I typed out what is going on in my head right now I would be banned for life :

[Nathan1097]

I don't understand. It looks like they took the outer foreskin but LEFT the INNER!

[MCatLvrMom2A&X]

Yep Nathan just the skin got removed not the "meat" for lack of a better term

[Nathan1097]

Originally Posted by MCatLvrMom2A&X

Yep Nathan just the skin got removed not the "meat" for lack of a better term

I understand that's what they're talking about, but I actually see skin covering the glans. It looks like the outer layer of foreskin is gone but the inner is still there, along with tight-ish shaft skin.

[MCatLvrMom2A&X]

Yes the foreskin is still there just without the skin on it.

[Night_Nurse]

It's horribly sad.

[akaisha]

holy

Originally Posted by MCatLvrMom2A&X

Yes the foreskin is still there just without the skin on it.

i don't get what the point of that is, doesn't that defeat the purpose of circing to begin with? (not that their really is one but...) i'm guessing that was by accident? i'm pretty good with medicalese (work in an animal hospital) but i can't figure that out.

[Collinsky]

What is wrong with people?????? It's really hard to be understanding and "meet people where they're at" ...when seeing this as some kind of reasonable risk for something that wasn't medically necessary is "where they're at."

[MCatLvrMom2A&X]

Yes it was a mistake. The Dr. didnt put the clamp on right resulting in the degloving. I am trying so hard to not think of the pain that little boy was in and praying that he was one of the lucky few who get a nerve block for pain. :

[akaisha]

Originally Posted by MCatLvrMom2A&X

Yes it was a mistake. The Dr. didnt put the clamp on right resulting in the degloving. I am trying so hard to not think of the pain that little boy was in and praying that he was one of the lucky few who get a nerve block for pain. :

yeah that would do it. degloving is nasty, i see it at work in animals after getting hit by cars. *sigh*

[Claire and Boys]

I Can't even look at the pic and I feel sick reading the responses poor baby.

[LavenderMae]

That poor little baby. I wonder how those monsters explained that away to the parents.

[mntnmom]

What makes me so mad is the casualness of the dialogue. It's just "one of those things, anybody dealt with it before". No concern at all that this poor boy has had his most delicate parts mutilated unessasarily. No concern for the longterm complications. Just another day at the office.